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Talking Tech App Preview | Toon Hero

LOS ANGELES: Have you ever watched a cartoon and wished you could voice the character, to have fun with your kids? That's the concept behind Toon Hero, a new app that's launching this weekend in the iTunes

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LOS ANGELES — Have you ever watched a cartoon and wished you could voice the character, to have fun with your kids? Or while reading a bedtime story to your kids, wanted to add funny voices to the characters and watch them move?

That's the concept behind Toon Hero, a new free app that's launching this weekend in the iTunes App Store.

Created in New Zealand by Shona Grundy, the CEO Of Trigger Happy, her app comes with a handful of characters and backgrounds to work with; additional ones cost 99 cents a piece. Licensed characters are available from the Jim Henson Company, Mukpuddy and 108, with backgrounds (jungle, desert, mountains) from the National Geographic Co. Users pick the characters and background, then use the built-in microphone from the iPad to make up voices and stories over the pre-existing animation.

"We are putting the power of social storytelling in people's hands," says Grundy.